Happy Monday!
I have had many emails and questions about the choice experiments, how many do I do, how do I send them to you, do you have any work from me turned in, do I have to do them all…so let me first off clarify the instructions (as given in the original assignment sheets) for completing and turning in work.
Choose ONE (that you have supplies to do), do it! Snap a pic or video, you can even write about it in a journal or a Google Doc to share with me. Explain what you saw happening, and then write a short summary of the SCIENCE behind it.
Here are the sets of choices given to each class period, starting with April 6, April 13, and last Apr 20 –
- 1st period: Dollar Bills and Ringing in my Ears; We all scream for Ice Cream and Water Bending; Pepper Trick and Match and Water Trick
- 2nd period: Naked Egg and Alka Seltzer Rockets; Exploding Lunch Bag and Eggshell Geodes; Bubble Prints and Coloring Flowers
- 4th period: Invisible Ink and Dancing Popcorn; Slime and Would you like a cup of Lava?; Burning Money and Foam Battle
- 5th period: Inky Elevators and Vertically Challenged; Plastic Milk and Chicken Sounds; Slime and Would you like a cup of Lava?
- 6th period: Water Xylophone and Which Way?; Rolling with Static Electricity and Density Column;Plastic Milk and Chicken Sounds
- 7th period: Salt Water Density and Sidewalk Constellations; Burning Money and Foam Battle; The Exploding Lunch Bag and Eggshell Geodes
- 8th period: Melting Away and Tie-Dye Milk; Bubble Prints and Coloring Flowers; We all scream for Ice Cream and Water Bending
Example:
If I wanted to complete Tie-Dye Milk, I would gather the supplies, read through the steps, think about what might happen (expected outcome, actual outcome, what if I change this or don’t do that), do the activity, take some pics of the process or video it, take some notes or draw a diagram or illustration of how it looked, and then I would think (and maybe ask someone or do some research on it) about what science may have been happening and give a brief explanation of it all. I would then choose how I would send it in to be marked for grading. If I am handwriting it, maybe I can take a pic of my notes and just email that with any other pics. Maybe I could do a Google Slides with all of my info and pics or I also could start a Google Doc and type in my notes and add my pics. Then I can share the Slides or Doc with my teacher. I might even have to ask a parent to send my pics through a text message or messenger app, whatever I need to make some contact my teacher and I can be certain it was submitted and can all be included for my grade.
I was hoping for more “why did that happen” type reactions on some of the labs, and maybe include parents, siblings or friends in the activity or discussions. For example in the Dollar Bill activity, did you ask anyone else to try and pick up the dollar? Could they? What was different in each person that tried? Was anyone able to pick it up? WHY NOT?? What do you think is the science behind this? This is an example of what you would write down in a journal or type up and turn in.
There are several ways to contact me, but email is best – [email protected]
Use the same email address in DOCS or SLIDES to share the doc with me so I can see it, and it does send me a notification email that a doc was shared, once you share it with me, you can still access and edit the doc.
Hope that clarifies any questions on the lab activities. Yes, I need 3 different labs per student and would like them in by Sunday, May 3rd.
This same information will be in Classroom as well, along with any other assignments that I give this week. I appreciate everyone trying to get some clarification so these may be completed. There are also paper copies on the tables at front door of school. I do not know yet how any paper assignments will be turned in so just hold on to it for now.
And last but not least – here is my sweet Olive with her brand new puppies. I am in love with them all so let me introduce to you my Favorite Days of the Week:
Have a Fantastic Week and please contact me if you need anything!!